A government-run insurance company has launched a pilot project to provide crop insurance to small tea growers on Wednesday.The small tea sector, which contributes around half of India’s total tea production, has been demanding for long that they should ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphLegislators and people can directly inform the state government of issues related to bad roads or drinking water problems through WhatsApp, state PWD minister Pulak Roy announced in the Assembly on Wednesday after launching three dedicated numbers. “We have ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphThe Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) has introduced a training programme for Kalimpong’s unemployed youths interested in working as guides for adventure sports.The initiative, GTA sources said, has been taken for the first time to promote adventure sports in the ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphA government-run insurance company has launched a pilot project to provide crop insurance to small tea growers on Wednesday.The small tea sector, which contributes around half of India’s total tea production, has been demanding for long that they should ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphSpeaker Biman Banerjee on Wednesday questioned the absence of MLAs during Question Hour and warned them of steps to rein in truant legislators if the trend continued.The Speaker made the observation when he called BJP MLA Budhurai Tudu to ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphSenior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury demanded Sixth Schedule status for the Darjeeling hills, putting the spotlight on the issue that had been on the back burner for years.Chowdhury, while speaking in Parliament on Tuesday on statehood and the ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphSpeaker Biman Banerjee on Wednesday said there was no illegality or anomaly in conducting the business of the Bengal Assembly, including tabling the Budget on Thursday, without the governor's speech and cited two prior incidents in Parliament as precedents. ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphThe president of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE), which conducts the Madhyamik exam in the state, who was in Malda on Tuesday, said eight examinees in the state were barred from writing their geography answer papers ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphThe West Bengal BJP has demanded a statement from state Education Minister Bratya Basu on the recent incidents of sharing of class 10 board examination question papers on social media by students.Images of question papers of Bengali, English and ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphThe ongoing Budget session in the Assembly on Tuesday saw chaotic scenes with BJP legislators sloganeering after the Speaker rejected an adjournment motion moved by some MLAs of the saffron camp demanding the CAG report be tabled in the ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphTrinamul leader Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday visited his aunt and chief minister Mamata Banerjee at her Kalighat residence for nearly two hours, with multiple Trinamul functionaries saying that the duo discussed candidates for the Rajya Sabha polls scheduled for ...
8 February 2024 TelegraphIn a tragic end to a love triangle, a couple hailing from Calcuttaa was arrested on the charge of murdering a Pune businessman in a luxury hotel in Guwahati, police said on Tuesday.Addressing a press conference here, Guwahati Police ...
7 February 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee’s plan to clear wage dues of nearly 21 lakh MGNREGA job card holders from the state coffers and use the plank of central deprivation against the Narendra Modi government in the Lok Sabha polls faced ...
7 February 2024 TelegraphTrinamul leader Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday visited his aunt and chief minister Mamata Banerjee at her Kalighat residence for nearly two hours, with multiple Trinamul functionaries saying that the duo discussed candidates for the Rajya Sabha polls scheduled for ...
7 February 2024 TelegraphThe ongoing Budget session in the Assembly on Tuesday saw chaotic scenes with BJP legislators sloganeering after the Speaker rejected an adjournment motion moved by some MLAs of the saffron camp demanding the CAG report be tabled in the ...
7 February 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday carried out search and seizure operations at multiple addresses in Bengal’s four districts in its maiden investigation into alleged irregularities in the execution of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). ...
7 February 2024 TelegraphThe Centre has been clearing the decks to raise uncomfortable questions to the Bengal government on the alleged siphoning of funds under the 100 days' job scheme through deleted job cards. “The Centre has asked the state to ...
7 February 2024 TelegraphGTA chief executive Anit Thapa, also the chief of the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM), on Tuesday outlined his plan to field a candidate with a "different" party symbol in the upcoming Lok Sabha election while addressing people at ...
7 February 2024 TelegraphSecurity in the Bengal Assembly has been beefed up for the Budget session that began on Monday in the wake of the smoke canister incident in Parliament on December 13 last year.A source in the Bengal government said to ...
7 February 2024 TelegraphThe Budget session of the Bengal Assembly started on Monday without the conventional speech by governor C.V. Ananda Bose amid apprehensions of a fresh round of confrontation between the Mamata Banerjee government and Raj Bhavan.Multiple officials and senior legislators ...
7 February 2024 TelegraphThe president of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE), which conducts the Madhyamik exam in the state, who was in Malda on Tuesday, said eight examinees in the state were barred from writing their geography answer papers ...
7 February 2024 TelegraphGTA chief executive Anit Thapa, also the chief of the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM), on Tuesday outlined his plan to field a candidate with a "different" party symbol in the upcoming Lok Sabha election while addressing people at ...
7 February 2024 TelegraphThe Centre has been clearing the decks to raise uncomfortable questions to the Bengal government on the alleged siphoning of funds under the 100 days' job scheme through deleted job cards. “The Centre has asked the state to ...
7 February 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday carried out search and seizure operations at multiple addresses in Bengal’s four districts in its maiden investigation into alleged irregularities in the execution of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). ...
7 February 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday morning started simultaneous searches at multiple places in West Bengal, including residences of some state officers, in connection with its investigation into alleged embezzlement of MGNREGA funds, officials said.The ED was conducting searches ...
7 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Tuesday denounced the coordinated ED searches in West Bengal as "vendetta politics" and a "desperate manoeuvre" by the BJP to divert attention from the TMC's ongoing dharna demanding clearance of the state's dues.The Enforcement Directorate ...
7 February 2024 TelegraphThe management of Sylee Tea Estate in Jalpaiguri district declared suspension of work on Sunday, leaving more than 1,000 workers jobless.The tea garden is located about 60km from Jalpaiguri.Six other gardens, namely Raipur, Bamandanga Tundu, Samsing, Red Bank, Dharanipur ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphA Bangladeshi national was nabbed by the BSF near the Bangladesh border at Cooch Behar on Sunday.Sources said Md Rabiual, 24, of Thakurgaon of Bangladesh, was arrested while trying to enter his home country “illegally” at 10pm on Sunday. ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphAfter Bengali and English, photos of History purported question papers were circulated on social media on the third day of the class 10 board examinations in West Bengal, a senior education official said. ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphThe Budget session of the Bengal Assembly started on Monday without the conventional speech by governor C.V. Ananda Bose amid apprehensions of a fresh round of confrontation between the Mamata Banerjee government and Raj Bhavan.Multiple officials and senior legislators ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphSecurity in the Bengal Assembly has been beefed up for the Budget session that began on Monday in the wake of the smoke canister incident in Parliament on December 13 last year.A source in the Bengal government said to ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphTwo suspected coal thieves were killed when a portion of a coal chunk fell on them at an abandoned coal mine of Eastern Coalfields Limited in West Burdwan’s Raniganj early on Monday.Sources in the ECL alleged that the two ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphIt’s uncanny how the reel life of Manoj Sharma, the protagonist of 12th Fail, and the real life of Umesh Ganpat Khandbahale seem to fit.Khandbahale, the current superintendent of police of Jalpaiguri district, had failed in his Class XII ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphThe chief judicial magistrate court of Berhampore in Murshidabad district has remanded Rintu Sheikh, 29, and his wife Belura Khatun, 25, in police custody for five days for allegedly killing their three-month-old daughter on Sunday. A police officer said ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphThe management of Sylee Tea Estate in Jalpaiguri district declared suspension of work on Sunday, leaving more than 1,000 workers jobless.The tea garden is located about 60km from Jalpaiguri.Six other gardens, namely Raipur, Bamandanga Tundu, Samsing, Red Bank, Dharanipur ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphTwo suspected coal thieves were killed when a portion of a coal chunk fell on them at an abandoned coal mine of Eastern Coalfields Limited in West Burdwan’s Raniganj early on Monday.Sources in the ECL alleged that the two ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Monday called off her Delhi visit at the eleventh hour citing her state budget-related responsibilities, surprising many even in her party and government for she knew of the budget session’s schedule last week when she planned ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphWith the Parliament sitting for the last time before the next Lok Sabha elections, the BJP allies in the hills are facing the heat of unmet promises.The BJP in its 2019 Lok Sabha election had promised a tribal status ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphThe United Central Refugee Council — which works to safeguard the interest of refugees — and several other organisations demanded that the central government announce any date after December 31, 2014, as the cut-off date to recognise all who ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphIt’s uncanny how the reel life of Manoj Sharma, the protagonist of 12th Fail, and the real life of Umesh Ganpat Khandbahale seem to fit.Khandbahale, the current superintendent of police of Jalpaiguri district, had failed in his Class XII ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphThe public prosecutor of Gangarampur subdivisional court in South Dinajpur was arrested on Saturday night in a case registered under the Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act.Pratul Maitra, the public prosecutor, is also a district general secretary ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphThe proceedings of the first day of the budget session of West Bengal assembly were adjourned for the day on Monday after obituary references to public figures who passed away recently.As soon as the House assembled, Speaker Biman Bandyopadhyay ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday said she would skip the meeting of the 'one nation one election’ committee in New Delhi on Tuesday, citing engagements related to the upcoming state budget.The TMC supremo said she has communicated ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress and BJP engaged in a war of words on Monday over the issue of MGNREGA funds with BJP MP Locket Chatterjee accusing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of doing a "drama" over the issue ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphThe railway authorities on Monday inspected a stretch of the East-West Metro that connects Kolkata and Howrah through a tunnel under the Hooghly river, which is awaiting commencement of commercial services, an official said.Chief Commissioner of Railway Safety (CCRS) ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphThe body of a trade union leader of Trinamul was found with multiple injury marks at a tea estate in Jalpaiguri on Saturday night.Police suspect Sunil Lohar, 48, a leader of Trinamul Cha Bagan Sramik Union in Nedam tea ...
6 February 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Youth Congress activists held protests at some places of West Bengal on Sunday against the alleged non-release of central funds to the state for the 100 days work scheme under MGNREGA.Led by TMYC state president Sayani Ghosh, the ...
5 February 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal Assembly’s budget session, beginning Monday, is set to witness stormy exchanges with the BJP planning to cite a CAG report to allege a “mother of all scams” worth Rs 2 lakh crore, and Trinamul attacking the Centre for withholding Bengal’s legitimate ...
5 February 2024 TelegraphAn exercise is under way in the Sunderbans to estimate the population of the delta’s top predator.Not the tiger, which sits on top of the food chain on land, but the estuarine crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) — the largest living ...
5 February 2024 TelegraphCongress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said Mamata Banerjee’s announcement to fight the Lok Sabha polls solo in Bengal was uncalled for and fighting the RSS-BJP parivar should be the sole goal of all INDIA constituents.“Negotiations are underway. We ...
5 February 2024 TelegraphThe body of a trade union leader of Trinamul was found with multiple injury marks at a tea estate in Jalpaiguri on Saturday night.Police suspect Sunil Lohar, 48, a leader of Trinamul Cha Bagan Sramik Union in Nedam tea ...
5 February 2024 TelegraphThe BJP's most prominent Matua face, MP Shantanu Thakur, who claimed last week that the CAA would be implemented "within a week", has said it was "a slip of tongue", renewing a sense of dejection in many sections of ...
5 February 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal unit of the BJP has started a help desk for those who wish to visit the Ram temple in Ayodhya by the special Shraddha Express in an apparent bid to reap political dividend from the religious sentiment ...
5 February 2024 TelegraphRepresentatives of state and national child rights commissions visited Malda district within 12 hours to inquire into the recent beheading of a nine-year-old girl allegedly by her uncle.However, the two commissions differed in their opinions on the probe and ...
5 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Saturday said the Bengal government would pay the due wages of nearly 21 lakh MGNREGA job card holders after the Centre had stopped the release of funds under the 100-day rural employment guarantee scheme. The ...
5 February 2024 TelegraphThe ruling Trinamul Congress in West Bengal on Sunday took on the BJP-led government at the Centre, alleging that it was indulging in "fiscal federal terrorism".Addressing a press conference here, TMC MP Derek O'Brien rejected the claims that the ...
5 February 2024 TelegraphThe public prosecutor of Gangarampur subdivisional court in South Dinajpur was arrested on Saturday night in a case registered under the Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act.Pratul Maitra, the public prosecutor, is also a district general secretary ...
5 February 2024 TelegraphRepresentatives of state and national child rights commissions visited Malda district within 12 hours to inquire into the recent beheading of a nine-year-old girl allegedly by her uncle.However, the two commissions differed in their opinions on the probe and ...
5 February 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal unit of the BJP has started a help desk for those who wish to visit the Ram temple in Ayodhya by the special Shraddha Express in an apparent bid to reap political dividend from the religious sentiment ...
5 February 2024 TelegraphThe BJP's most prominent Matua face, MP Shantanu Thakur, who claimed last week that the CAA would be implemented "within a week", has said it was "a slip of tongue", renewing a sense of dejection in many sections of ...
5 February 2024 TelegraphTourists and wildlife enthusiasts visiting the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (PNHZP) in Darjeeling have another reason to roar.The hill park authorities released a pair Siberian tigers at the open enclosure for public viewing on Friday.Officials of the park ...
5 February 2024 TelegraphThe ruling Trinamul Congress in West Bengal on Sunday took on the BJP-led government at the Centre, alleging that it was indulging in "fiscal federal terrorism".Addressing a press conference here, TMC MP Derek O'Brien rejected the claims that the ...
5 February 2024 TelegraphActor and Trinamul Congress MP from Ghatal, Dev (Dipak Adhikari), resigned from three crucial government-nominated positions on Saturday, the move coming at a time when there are talks within Bengal's ruling party that chief minister Mamata Banerjee is keen ...
5 February 2024 TelegraphAlimuddin Street has neither bolted the doors nor kept them ajar.CPM leaders' busy confabulating with colleagues at their party headquarters realise that the continued dilly-dallying of the Congress high command over the Mamata Banerjee question is costing time ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Saturday said the Bengal government would pay the due wages of nearly 21 lakh MGNREGA job card holders after the Centre had stopped the release of funds under the 100-day rural employment guarantee scheme. The ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphActor and Trinamul Congress MP from Ghatal, Dev (Dipak Adhikari), resigned from three crucial government-nominated positions on Saturday, the move coming at a time when there are talks within Bengal's ruling party that chief minister Mamata Banerjee is keen ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Saturday said the BJP would not be invincible if Opposition parties engage in an "all-out fight" in all states across the country. "I will fight all out against BJP and ensure victory (in the Lok Sabha ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphA 17-year-old boy who was returning home after taking the Madhyamik English examination died after he fell from a running train near Kankinara railway station in North 24-Parganas on Saturday afternoon.Police and eyewitnesses said Rajkumar Shaw, a resident of ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Sunday will organise a rally in Birbhum on the route that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had taken on the final day of the Bengal leg of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in the district.On Friday. ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphAnit Thapa, the president of the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) and a key rival to the BJP in the hills, has apparently issued gag orders to his leaders from speaking about the party’s Lok Sabha candidate.Sources in the ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphThe Union railway ministry will build a road overbridge (ROB) along the railway level crossing in Rangapani on the southern outskirts of Siliguri and will entirely fund the project.Sandip Sharma, the principal chief engineer of the Northeast Frontier Railway ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphTourists and wildlife enthusiasts visiting the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (PNHZP) in Darjeeling have another reason to roar.The hill park authorities released a pair Siberian tigers at the open enclosure for public viewing on Friday.Officials of the park ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphAnit Thapa, the president of the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) and a key rival to the BJP in the hills, has apparently issued gag orders to his leaders from speaking about the party’s Lok Sabha candidate.Sources in the ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphThe Union railway ministry will build a road overbridge (ROB) along the railway level crossing in Rangapani on the southern outskirts of Siliguri and will entirely fund the project.Sandip Sharma, the principal chief engineer of the Northeast Frontier Railway ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphA 17-year-old boy who was returning home after taking the Madhyamik English examination died after he fell from a running train near Kankinara railway station in North 24-Parganas on Saturday afternoon.Police and eyewitnesses said Rajkumar Shaw, a resident of ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Sunday will organise a rally in Birbhum on the route that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had taken on the final day of the Bengal leg of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in the district.On Friday. ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Saturday said the BJP would not be invincible if Opposition parties engage in an "all-out fight" in all states across the country. "I will fight all out against BJP and ensure victory (in the Lok Sabha ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphChief Minister Mamata Banerjee's dharna, demanding West Bengal's "dues" from the Centre for various social welfare schemes, continued overnight amid the cold, following which she went for a walk on Saturday morning.Banerjee along with leaders of her party, the ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphThe CBI conducted searches at eight locations in Kolkata and 24 North Parganas district of West Bengal on Saturday over alleged forged use of domicile documents to take benefit available to border-area residents in Central Armed Police Forces recruitment, ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday announced that her government would transfer funds to the bank accounts of 21 lakh unpaid MGNREGA workers in the state by February 21.Banerjee, who started a 48-hour-dharna in front of BR ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphExpressing displeasure at the medical termination of pregnancy of a rape victim by a team of doctors, the Calcutta High Court sought an explanation from them as to why it was done despite an order to only form a ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday criticised TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee and alleged that her changing statements and shifting stance were indicative of her fear of the BJP.Chowdhury, who has been held responsible by the TMC ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphLeader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Friday alleged that BDOs and SDOs in connivance with district magistrates had intentionally removed the names of several BJP workers from the voter list, particularly in Abhishek Banerjee's Diamond Harbour constituency.Adhikari, who ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Friday held Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the comptroller and auditor general (CAG) responsible for the pause on the flow of funds to Bengal, making it clear that the narrative of central deprivation would be the ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphChief Minister Mamata Banerjee's dharna, demanding West Bengal's "dues" from the Centre for various social welfare schemes, continued overnight amid the cold, following which she went for a walk on Saturday morning.Banerjee along with leaders of her party, the ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphThe CBI conducted searches at eight locations in Kolkata and 24 North Parganas district of West Bengal on Saturday over alleged forged use of domicile documents to take benefit available to border-area residents in Central Armed Police Forces recruitment, ...
4 February 2024 TelegraphA pair of Royal Bengal Tigers, along with a pair of leopards and some birds, left the Bengal Safari Park, on the outskirts of Siliguri, for Tripura on Thursday, as a part of an animal exchange programme.In turn, a ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphA tug-of-war between between hill leaders Anit Thapa and Raju Bista has started over Union minister of women and child development Smriti Irani and her Bengal counterpart Shashi Panja in the Darjeeling hills after education criteria to promote anganvadi ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphThe BSF and the state police helped Madhyamik examinees in different locations of north Bengal in various ways as the secondary school board exams started across the state on Friday.While the central border force arranged transportation for students from ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphThe Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) on Friday launched its first electric passenger locomotive in Siliguri.Surendra Kumar, the divisional railway manager of the NFR’s Katihar division, flagged off the electric loco at the diesel loco shed of Siliguri Junction.“We are ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphA person was fatally shot and another got injured as goons fired at them while trying to loot a bag of cash from them in Malda on Thursday.Police sources said Chinmoy Barui, 47, the deceased, and Prasenjit Mudi, 29, ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphAt the Calcutta airport, passengers often complain about being unable to make smooth online transactions because of poor mobile phone network. The same problem is often faced by passengers at the parking lot of the airport.The issue was raised ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphThe Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) will build a rest house on the outskirts of Siliguri to provide accommodation to hill residents who visit the city for different purposes.GTA deputy chairman Rajesh Chouhan said the decision to construct the rest ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphThe Special Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act) Court in Malda on Friday sentenced five persons to rigorous imprisonment for 20 years and slapped a penalty of Rs 20,000 each on them for sexually assaulting two minor ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphThe BSF and the state police helped Madhyamik examinees in different locations of north Bengal in various ways as the secondary school board exams started across the state on Friday.While the central border force arranged transportation for students from ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphA tug-of-war between between hill leaders Anit Thapa and Raju Bista has started over Union minister of women and child development Smriti Irani and her Bengal counterpart Shashi Panja in the Darjeeling hills after education criteria to promote anganvadi ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphA pair of Royal Bengal Tigers, along with a pair of leopards and some birds, left the Bengal Safari Park, on the outskirts of Siliguri, for Tripura on Thursday, as a part of an animal exchange programme.In turn, a ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphChief minister and Trinamul supremo Mamata Banerjee appointed state power minister Aroop Biswas as the observer of East and West Burdwan at a meeting with the leaders of the two districts on Friday, on the sidelines of her dharna ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphThe Bengali question paper of the Madhyamik exam was leaked in at least two venues of Malda district on Friday, the first day of the exam.However, unlike earlier years, the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) that conducts ...
3 February 2024 TelegraphThe Birbhum leg of Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra on Friday exited Bengal amid charges of new hurdles by state police, which issued new curbs on the Congress event citing Madhyamik exams.Madhyamik exams started in Bengal at 9.45am ...
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